Lucie Casinghino
The Kent Memorial Library is proud to announce that Lucie Casinghino, daughter of Carl and Alexandra Casinghino, and a recent first prize winner in the Library’s Spell Me a Scary Short Story contest last October, received a Gold Medal Award in the Regional and National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Contest in the Flash Fiction category. The awards are the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades 7-12. The Awards have helped foster the creativity and talent of millions of students across the United States. Alumni of the Awards have gone on to become leaders in their fields, including Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Philip Pearlstein, and Sylvia Plath. More recently, Stephen King, Richard Linklater, Zac Posen, and Lena Dunham received Scholastic Art & Writing Awards as teens. And now Lucie is an alumna too.
Lucie is one of six Gold Medal winners in the Flash Fiction category nationwide. Her winning entry is entitled Morning Milk, an eerie, descriptive and imaginative piece. It is written in the second person, a rare and very difficult point of view to pull off in a story. Her story is effective and disturbing as though she is talking to her younger self, a person featured on a milk carton as missing. It is very probable that Lucie will choose writing as a career. She is a consistent writer for the Kent Memorial Library’s writing contests. Lucie is a student in the Suffield Middle School.
She will receive her Gold Medal in a national ceremony which will take place at Carnegie Hall in NYC on June 8. This ceremony will feature celebrity guests and the top creative leaders in the arts.
Lucy’s short story appears here.